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I haven't blogged here since 2012. Why am I making a stab at it again?

I realized two things about social media I wanted to get away from. First was that I was often using it as a journal, which is boring and maybe TMI for those platforms. Secondly I was using it too much for my taste, so that I felt like a tool for marketers rather than using social media as a tool for my ends.




Tuesday, September 28, 2004

Tight Makes Might

So there Nietzsche.

I was looking at the haikus I wrote earlier, and while they may not be much, for me nearly every line is a summation of pages and pages of thought, memory, and joy or rage.

I reviewed and made a summary of The Nazi Nearest You, the play I will be talking about for my presentation on Thursday morning. It brought back the power of the play, as well as the structure.

In rewriting a couple scripts I am working on, I am now thinking of writing a summary, then writing them as a series of haikus, to help pick out the parts which are pivotal and resonant; identifying what needs to be cut or enhanced. Basically an ultra-tight version of my work, with more life and juice than I have ever been able to put into an outline. In a couple weeks or months I'll let you know if it helps at all.

1 Comments:

Blogger Rachel Rutherford said...

I am a big believer in haikus.

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